L-R: Rong Fu as Mitchell, Anson Mount as Pike, and Rebecca Romijn as Una in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, episode 1, season 3, streaming on Paramount+, 2025. Photo Credit: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ...

The five teams start in different regions of the map, far enough away from each other that they'll all have time to explore, which leads into one of the coolest parts of the game so far ...